US1173817A - Separable button. - Google Patents

Description

E. LE BRETON.

SEPARABLE BUTTON. APPLICATION FILED JUNE I, 1914.

1,173,817. Patented Feb. 29,1916.

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EDWARD LE BRETON, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO VOLTA R. HALL, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

SEPARABLE BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Fatented Feb. 29, 11916.

To all 107mm it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD Ln Bnn'roN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in separable Buttons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompany drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in separable buttons such as are applicable to cuffs and soft collars and it has for its objects to provide a button of this nature which is very simple of construction and economical of production, and which comprises, generally, a receiving member and an entering member, the receiving member consisting of a pair of heads that are con nected and spaced apart by a neck, and having a socket for the reception of an enlarged portion of the entering member; and the entering member carrying a pair of heads that are connected and spaced apart by a neck. The neck of each of the members is adapted to occupy one of the button holes of a cutl' or collar.

Attention is directed to the manner in which I form one of the heads and the neck of each member, from a single piece ofmaterial; and the way in which I attach the entering member to one of the heads and the neck that are carried thereby.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 represents a perspective of the entering member of my separable link button; Fig. 2 is a perspective of the receiving member; F ig. 3 is an end elevation of the entering member shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a section through said member on the line 4t4 of Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is a bottom plan view of the entering member; Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section through the receiving member; Fig. 7 is atransverse section of the receiving member; and Fig. 8 shows the link button attached to a cufi.

I will now describe my improved separa ble link button by the use of reference characters and referring first to the entering member, 1 represents the outer head and 2 the inner head which are connected and spaced apart by the neck 3. p v

As will be seen clearly from Fig. 4 the inner head member and the neck are made from an integral piece of sheet metal, which consists of a flat central portion 4 and side extensions 5 that are bent back alongside and in contact with the portion l until they very closely approach each other when they are then turned at right angles from the portion 4, to form the neck 8. At the upper end of the neck, the members extend in opposite directions in a common plane and are secured in any suitable manner, preferably by soldering, to the underneath surface of the head member 1. Before the piece of sheet metal is formed into the head member 2 and neck 3, the central portion 4 is perforated to allow the branches 6 of the entering member 7 to be passed therethrough. Now with the upper inverted U- shaped end of the entering member occupylng the space between the portions 5, whereof the neck 3 is formed, said members are pressed together between the branches 6 of the entering member and their edges are also pressed about the outer edges of said branches. In this manner the entering member 7 has very securely fixed to it, one unit of the link button. It will be noted that the lower ends of the branches 6 of the coupling member 7 are curved outwardly in opposite directions and then inwardly again to form an enlar ed portion, and the extreme ends of said member overlie each other and are cut away on an les so that the aggregate thickness of the overlapping portions does not exceed that of the main body portion of said member.

The receiving member of the button consists of a dish-shaped head 8, to the fiat side of which are secured the out turned ends of extensions 9 of a plate which has a central section 10 that is separated from the ends 9 by portions 11, said portions being spaced apart, as shown clearly in Figs. 2 and 6 to form, with the interior of the dish-shaped head 8, a suitable socket for the enlarged end of the entering member.

It will be noticed that the parts of the portions 11 adjacent the section 10 are pressed against such section, in the same manner as the extensions are pressed against.

the portion, 4 of the previouslydescribed member. The central section 10 of the aforesaid plate is slotted at 12 to form an entrance to the socket, and as the enlarged end of the entering member is forced through the slot 12, said member is contracted until it passes through the slot 12 when it is again expanded to its normal size by reason of the resiliency of the spring wire from which it is formed.

In the use of my improved separable link' button, each of the units thereof is placed the receiving member; it being to roll up the sleeve without removing the danger of on one of the button holes of a cuff or collar, and the enlarged portion of the entering member is forced into the socket of the receiving member.

As illustrated by Fig. 8, in connection with a cuff, the entering member is permitted to swing within the socket of'the re-' ceiving member, thus allowing-thecnfi to assume its natural shape. V 7

hen 1t is desired to roll up the sleeves,

the wearer may place his fingers between the ends of the cuff and press them apart when the entering member 7 will yield to permit its enlarged end to be withdrawn from possible now portions of the button from the button holes of the cuff. Furthermore, there will be no losing the'units of the button be cause the opposed heads of each of said nnits will securely hold the unit within its respective button hole.

I claim is 1. A separable link button comprising a pair of members, each member having a pair of heads that are connected and spaced apart by aneck, one of said members having a socket, and a spring-wire entering member carried by the other of said members and projecting beyond theihead of same and hav ing an enlarged portion that is adapted to ,be received by the socketed member.

2. A separable link button comprising a pair of members each of which consists of a pair of heads that are connected and spaced apart by .a neck, one of said members havmg a mouth and an enlarged space behind the same. and a sprlng-wire entering memher which is carried by the otherof said head, the latter head having a slot and the extensions thereof being spaced apart adjacent said slot to form, with the interior of the dished member, a socket, an entering member that is formed of spring wire and hayingits ends overlapped and the side portions'adjacent thereto curved outwardly in opposite directions and then inwardly to form an enlargement that is adapted to occupy the aforesaid socket, and a head havslaving thus described my invention, what ing its central portion perforated for the reception-of the'entering member and having extensions that are adapted to bejpressed about the adjacent portionof the entering member whereby the entering member is securely attached thereto, the ends'of said extensions beingtnrned in oppositedirections and in a common plane adjacent the end of theentering memberf V In a separable link bination of an entering member that is formed of spring wire with itsends beveled and overlapping, the branches of. said member adjacent said ends being curved ontwardly in opposite directions to form an en largement, the opposite end of the entering member having applied to it a pair ofhea'ds' thatare connected and spacedapart by a neck, the neck and the inner head being button, the comformed of a single'piece of sheet metal the central portion whereof is perforated'for the rece atien of the branchesof theentering member, the inner head having extensions that are turned over in contact with its outer surface and are pressed together about the outer end of the entering member, the ex:

treme ends of said extension being turned outwardly in opposite directions and in a common plane, the outer head member being vattached to the onttnrned portions of the I extensions, and a receiving member that consists of a dlshed head that has a second head connected to it by extensions on said second head which are turned inwardly against its outer surface and then toward the dished head where they are separated and connected to the latter, the second head being slotted and theextensions being spaced apart adja} cent the slot to-form a socket for the reception of the enlarged portion of the entering member.

5. A separable link button comprising a pair of members each of which consists of a pair of heads that are connected and spaced apart by a neck, having a socket, and an entering member 7 carried by the other of said button members, said entering member being formed of spring wire'and consisting of a pair of sub stantially parallel branchesthat are curved outwardly and then inwardly at their free ends, the free ends overlapping and having their opposed faces cut away so that the thickness of the overlapping portion of the entering member is approximately the same as the thickness of the wire from which it is formed; 1 7

In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix my signature in the presenceof two witnesses.

EDWARD LE BR E TON,

Witnesses:

BRENNAN BpWns'r, ROBERT L. BRUCK.

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